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Originally Posted by NousDefionsDoc
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No, that didn't help, sorry. I was trying to escape Latin American political debate for the era 1960-1990. There are 3 types of communism involved - Soviet, Cuban, and Chinese. There are shades of grey in the Socialist camp, there is the dictatorial angle, the influence of the Monroe doctrine, Big Oil, Big Pharma, the growth of the drug trade, ore production (ferrous and non ferrous), timber, and agriculture - an amazing stew of conflicting economic, political, social and cultural elements. The region has been influenced by the intelligence communities of interested and disinterested parties - to unravel in a few paragraphs what has been a mess since Cortes, and only made worse by the resources needed by the industrial giants, is unthinkable. To even grasp a portion of the complexity takes years (and trust me, I'm no expert) and there are nuances that even experts can only hope to glean as outsiders.
Who are we to say who is the monster in this case - Allende, Pinochet, Rising Sun, Black Hand, the off shoots of the drug cartels, Big oil....? Pinochet kept the wholesale slaughter to a minimum, can that be said for other countries in Latin America? I'm still doing my research, it might take years. There is no quick answer. The study of political evolution in once-subject nations is sticky - even we had a revolution, a bloody and hard fought one - why do so many Americans forget this?